Wagon end gate fastener



Jan. 9, 1934. D. s. SHEPARD WAGON END GATE FASTENER Filed Sept. 29, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Inventor Attomey Jan. 9, 1934. p. s. sHEPARD WAGON END GATE FASTENER Filed Sept. 29, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Q /////`////S/S////////////// Inventor j. yazf'/ Attorney Patented Jan. 9, 1934 WAGON END GATE FASTENER Donald Smith Shepard, Goodland, Ind.

Application September 29, 1933 Serial No. 691,537

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to an end gate for a wagon and has for its prime object to provide a safety latch of eicient construction for holding the gate in locked or closed position and permitting the ready and easy unlatching thereof when desired.

A further important object of the invention resides in the provision of an improved construction of this nature which is simple, inexpensive to manufacture and install, thoroughly ecient, reliable in use and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects in View as will appear as the description proceeds,

' the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation or a wagon box showing the end gate in place with the improved latch structure.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section therethrough taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a Vertical section taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a detail vertical section taken substantially on the line 4 4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a detail vertical section taken substantially on the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a detail horizontal section taken substantially on the line 6 6 of Figure 3, and

Figure '7 is a perspective View of the latch bar.

Referring to the drawings in detail it will be seen that numeral 5 denotes the back of a wagon box having an end gate portion 6 hingedly mounted as at 7. Numeral 8 denotes a keeper open at the top at one end of the structure 5 while numeral 9 denotes a keeper open at the bottom and situated at the other side of the end structure 5. A strap bracket 10 is xed to the central portion of the gate 6 adjacent its lower free edge and an elongated latch bar 11 is rockable therein by means of a bolt 12 and extends through guides 14 and 15 which limit the rocking movement thereof and the ends of the latch bar are engageable with the keepers S and 9.

My improved construction resides particularly in the provision of a lever 16 rockably mounted on a bracket structure 17 fixed on the gate 6.

From an intermediate portion of the lever 16 projects laterally lu gs 18 having a pin 19 extending therebetween through a slot 20 in a link 21. This link 21 is pivotally engaged with a bracket 22 on one end portion of the latch bar 11 and a spring 23 is disposed on the link impinging against the lugs 18 and the bracket 22.

Now by swinging the lever 16 outwardly and upwardly from the position shown in Figure 3 it will be seen that the pin 19 will travel to the upper end of the slot 20 in the link 21 and pull upwardly on this link 21 thereby rocking the latch 1l to released position.

Now when the lever 16 is rocked downwardly the lugs 18 compress the spring 23 to create a tension which will the purposes of practice it atta exempliication since in actual ins the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description.

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction,

rangement of parts may be resorted to without A and in the combination and ardeparting from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacriiicing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

In combination with a wagon end gate latch bar pivotally connected to the gate intermediate its ends, a lever pivotally connected with the gate at its upper end above an end part of the bar, inwardly extending ears carried by the upper part of the lever, a link extending between the ears and having a longitudinally extending slot therein, a pin carried by the ears and passing through the slot, a notched bracket projecting from said end part of the which the lower latch bar and in the notch of end of the link is pivoted, and a spring encircling the link and having one end bearing against against the ears.

the bracket and its other end DONALD SMITH SHEPARD. 

